WordPress 5.5 page editor inherits font colour but not background colour

Hi @sigagan,

Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

I will notify our developers about this bug with WordPress 5.5.

Thanks @gdpavle. In the meantime, can I force the background colour for the editor via theme php or css files. I update the site daily, and as you can imagine editing white text on a white background is no fun.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by sigagan.

Hi @sigagan,

As a temporary fix, you can try and add this code to the bottom of Primer’s functions.php:

add_action( 'enqueue_block_editor_assets', 'gd_add_gutenberg_assets' );
function gd_add_gutenberg_assets() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'gd-gutenberg', get_theme_file_uri( 'gutenberg-temporary-style.css' ), false );
}

After that, you can create a CSS file named ‘gutenberg-temporary-style.css’, with the following code:

.edit-post-visual-editor{
	background-color:#000;
}

Finally, add the ‘gutenberg-temporary-style.css’ file to the Primer theme directory.

This will change the background color of the entire Gutenberg editor content section and should serve as a temporary fix before our devs repair the bug.

I get a black background and white letters, as you can see here.

Please let me know if this works for you.

@gdpavle thanks mate. It works.

I am having the same problem with the Lyrical theme, I basically can’t even edit posts now because my main theme text is white, where before the background was a blue but is now also white! Should the above codes work?

I tried the above coding, it did not work. Tried in primer AND lyrical

Thank you @sigagan for talking about this matter. I thought it was a WordPress 5.5 problem and I even left a message in the forum in my country (Spain).

But I see it is the problem of the theme. I hope for an update soon @gdpavle although I will test that code to see if I know how to make it work, oops.

Greetings!

I am having the same problem with white background in the block editor and white text.

The temporary fix looks too difficult for someone of my ability to try. I think I would do more harm than good.

Is there any home that this issue will be resolved shortly as currently having to change the background of the block is a real pain.

Looking forward to a full time fix.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by coloursign.

Another aspect of upgrading to 5.5 I have noticed is that whenever I amend the block editor with my dark background it also indents all the text.

Has anyone else noticed this.